Credit: The Associated Press

People arrive at Robert Spearing Funeral Home for a private viewing for actor James Gandolfini, Wednesday, June 26, 2013, in Park Ridge, N.J. Gandolfini, who played Tony Soprano in the HBO show "The Sopranos", died while vacationing in Italy last week.

NEW YORK — The creator of "The Sopranos" said at James Gandolfini's funeral that the actor brought the traits of a sad boy, "amazed and confused," to the role of Tony Soprano.

"You were a good boy," David Chase said Thursday at the ceremony at New York's Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine.

One of four speakers at the funeral, Chase gave his remarks in the form of a letter to Gandolfini. The actor's widow, Deborah Lin Gandolfini, and two family friends were also speakers at the ceremony.